The Reading List: Gentile (and some Jewish) comedians love AJWS

By Ben Sales October 29, 2010

Everyone from Tracy Morgan to Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog loves the Jewish international aid group. [AJWSTV] Meanwhile, two Pakistani-American Muslim students are going all over their campuses to promote dialogue and understanding between Muslims and Jews. [Forward] The Israeli university students’ protest of the yeshiva stipends bill continues… [JTA] A Jewish college basketball coach…

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What to Do about Maimonides

By yschwartz October 29, 2010

On the first day of the semester, a certain professor of mine unreservedly characterized the great 12th-century Rabbi Moses Maimonides as “the most influential figure in Jewish rabbinic history.” While there certainly might be other contenders for that distinction, the fact that my professor was willing to make that claim is telling. Maimonides’s groundbreaking theological…

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